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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1977
Page
7
The Albany Community Senior Citizens group will travel to German Village in Columbus this Friday. Transportation is provided and the group will depart Albany bus station at 9 30 a.m. Reservations can be made by calling 696 2233.
Al Anon meets at 8 p m at Church of the Good with flowers and produce decorations. Athens Emblem Club holds 8 p m at Elks Lodge for installation practice for officers. Paramythia Lodge 25 F and AM at 7 p m at Athens Masonic Temple for Fellow Craft degree. Athens Mental Health OCSEA chapter at 7 30 p m third The Plains Home Demonstration Club at 7 30 p m with Sylvia Matheny discusses Christmas program. Albany VFW Post 9693 at 8 p m Glouster Boy Scouts at 6 p m Scout Building Progressive Study Club spring dinner at 6 p m Burr Oak Lodge hostess Miss Mabel LeFever and Mrs.
Forecaster Harold Vaughn and Mrs. David Cox host events at the American Legion McCann Frederick Post 414 in Glouster with Ohio State Auditor Thomas Ferguson speaking on Homestead law tax distribution and bingo rules. Athens County groups including Franciscan meals at First Christian Church Nelsonville OU Women's Club and RAM and R&SM chapter meetings list dates. Community circles, lodge gatherings, and a Priscilla Needle Club luncheon at Ohio University Inn are noted along with other club activities across Meigs and Athens counties.
Emergency runs list multiple calls in Athens area. Entries include Donald Pennington 27 Brooklyn Indiana from 394 Richland Ave to O Bleness for injuries from a domestic dispute, Sally Morgan 21 from 10242 W State St to O Bleness with cuts, Luella Driggs 62 Stewart from 79 W Union St to O Bleness with possible heart attack, plus several transfers to Holzer Medical Center and Veterans Memorial. An aside notes itinerant artists once painted landscapes on Ohio barns.
Blanche Yeager of Letart died at her daughter's Racine home. Survived by daughter Mrs. Andrew Cross and son Clarence Yeager, two grandsons, two great grandchildren. Services Thursday 1 30 p.m. Fogelsong Funeral Home. burial Suncrest. Hershel E. Young of Pennsville died in Bethesda Hospital. Survived by wife Ruth Ellen Mobberly Young a son Terry a daughter Mrs. Jim Trefney and two grandchildren. Services Thursday 2 p.m. Stone Matheney Funeral Home. burial Pennsville Cemetery. Elvin E. Columbus of Nelsonville died after a short illness. Survived by wife Hazel Daft Bean and four sons and four daughters and two granddaughters and three great grandchildren. Services Thursday 1 p.m. Warren Funeral Home. burial Green Lawn Cemetery. Pearl Lash of Toledo formerly of Athens died at Dana Convalescent Home. Survived by sister Leona Welsh. Services Wednesday 1 p.m. Alexander Presbyterian Church. burial Alexander Cemetery. Adiprono Tirtonegoro of Canaanville died this morning. Retired bank director from Indonesia. Survived by mother and daughter and two granddaughters, three sisters, a brother, and a son. Burial Alexander Cemetery. Burial arrangements and times subject to change.
Dorothy Trowbridge of Route 1 died Monday night at 8. Services Friday at Leonard Lyke Funeral Home with Rev. Diehm. Burial Oak Grove Cemetery. Call after 7 p.m. Wednesday. James T. Pickering 86 died Thursday in Pittsburgh after retiring as Cabell County school principal. He is survived by three daughters and seven grandchildren. Services Saturday at First Presbyterian Church St. Albans with Rev. Moss. Entombment Cunningham Memorial Park Mausoleum. Louis E. Heiskell 69 of Columbus died Saturday. Services Wednesday 1 p.m. at Mount Herman Church. Burial Mount Herman Cemetery. Survivors include step daughter Betty Jenkins of Cleveland.
Southeast Ohio cloudy with mid to upper 60s expected and a 10 to 30 percent chance of showers. Ohio outlook calls for showers Thursday then mostly fair Friday and Saturday with highs in the 80s and lows in the upper 50s to 60s. Northwest and central regions show varying cloudiness and showers with southwest winds 10 to 20 knots and 1 to 3 foot waves.
The Hocking County Sheriff reports a portable light plant worth 7000 dollars stolen from a strip mine on Friday along with two water pumps 1600 dollars and a first aid kit 365 dollars. A German shepherd guard dog was shot. plant later found Monday in Gallia County burned. CAB Coal Co of Cheshire owned the property. Gallia authorities joined the investigation.
Nelsonville arson ruled in a blaze at the Tri County Joint Vocational School main building causing about 2000 dollars in damage. Students were sent out for over an hour as smoke from burning rubber filled the building. Fire Chief Danny Knight said the fire started in the girls restroom and was fed by toilet paper and holders.
Meigs County Sheriff reports arrest of John Bunyon 39 Minersville Route 1 for possession of under 100 grams of marijuana. Investigating theft of a mirror from a 1973 pickup at Riggs Used Car Lot Chester. Seek driver of an unknown car that hit Wayne Russell's house in Louisville Ky causing a 24 by 24 inch hole on Route 124 Rutland crossroads. Witness Ed Templeton recalls car traveling off road between 9 p m Sunday and 6 a m Monday. Parking light lens fragments found at scene.
A compilation of court entries listing driving while intoxicated charges for several defendants, including Roger D Case and Chester W McKnight, plus related penalties such as fines, jail days, and license suspensions. The docket also covers dissolution petitions, divorce actions, and notices of divorces granted or filed across multiple towns including Nelsonville Athens and Glouster.
Chicago readers are invited to request a free non-operating Beltone hearing aid model. The ad promises no cost or obligation and asks recipients to mail to Beltone Electronics Dept 9188 at 4201 W Victoria St Chicago IL 60646 to try the tiny device at home.
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